Shakespearean Insults- 9/24

Warm Up:
-Students will take the brief assessment on grammar usage
-Students will take notes on, and discuss prefixes, suffixes, and word roots
-Together we will practice this skill using the teacher-provided notes

Work Session:
-Students will choose either a red or blue chip from the basket to determine whether they will be a Montague or Capulet for the unit performance task
-Students will receive the performance task, with menu choices built-in to the assessment
-As a class we will discuss the project
-Students will receive a slip of paper with a name and a Shakespearean insult on it.
-Using this as a basis for grouping, students will meet with their "insult" group and work through the handout activities
-We will share a few of these insults with the entire class
-Students will return to their seat and work on the final component of the activity in which they construct their own fully formed Shakespearean insult
-If time permits we will continue reading and discussing Act I

Summarizer:
-Students will complete a 3-2-1 Countdown based on today's lesson, as written on the portable whiteboard

Contiinuing Act I - 9/23

Warm Up:
-Students will quickwrite on the following topic:  What is love?  Can a view of love change when considered from a different historical era?
-As a class we will discuss and share out responses

Work Session:
-Students will fill out the graphic organizer listing the major attributes of Romeo, Benvolio, Tybalt, Mercutio, and Juliet
-Students will be assigned major roles from Act I
-As a class we will begin reading and discussing Act I of Romeo and Juliet

Summarizer:
-Students will quickwrite on the following topic:  Who is the most interesting character to you so far and why?
-As a class we will share and discuss responses

Common Assessment Performance Task- 9/19

NOTE: The performance task for the common assessment will be administered today.  One hour will be allotted for students to produce an essay in which they analyze a contemporary sonnet.

-If time permits we will continue reading and discussing Act I of Romeo and Juliet

Common Assessment- 9/18

-Students will be taking the multiple choice section of the common assessment today.

-Students that finish early will begin answering critical reading questions from the textbook concerning Act I of Romeo and Juliet

-These questions will be due at the beginning of next class
 

Choral Readings and Act I- 9/17

Warm Up:
-Students will take notes on basic rules of verb tenses, keeping the proper verb tense, and pronoun agreement
-Students will receive a handout to practice using the proper tense
-Using the smartboard, students will demonstrate an understanding of subject/verb agreement

Work Session:
-The class will convene in the amphitheater to perform the choral readings of the prologue
-Students will return to the class and fill out anticipation guides based on the prologue
-As a class we will discuss the answers to these anticipation guides
-As a class we will view the opening scenes of Romeo + Juliet
-The class will discuss mood and tone operating in the scene and how this sets the stage for the rest of the play
-Students will receive speaking roles and the class will begin reading Act I of Romeo and Juliet
-The class will take notes on the main characters, using an advanced graphic organizer that will be modeled by the instructor

Summarizer:
-Students will complete a 3-2-1 Countdown based on today's lesson

The Prologue and Choral Readings-9/16

Warm Up:
-Students will take notes on and discuss subject/verb agreement, compound subjects, and the correct use of intervening subjects

Work Session:
-Together we will work on the coached example from the COACH workbooks
-Students will complete the lesson practice and we will discuss the correct answers together
-Students will briefly view the prologue from Romeo + Juliet
-Students will meet with their four o'clock buddy and the instructor will further differentiate grouping by ability and ratio of drama arts students
-As a class we will view the example of choral reading from youtube
-Groups will receive their individual parts to translate and memorize
-Groups are further instructed to add dramatic flair and emphasis to their part
-Groups will run through a "dry run" of the choral reading of the Prologue
-Students will answer critical thinking questions concerning the entire prologue from the smartboard

Summarizer:
-Students will complete critical thinking questions to serve as today's Exit Ticket

Project and Grade Conferences Continued and "In Search of Shakespeare"-9/13

Warm Up:
-Students will complete notes and activities (smartboard) on capitalization and the spelling of confusing words

Work Session:
-As a class we will do the coached example from the COACH workbooks
-Students will complete the lesson practice from the COACH workbooks

-We will continue the grade and project conferences we started yesterday while the rest of the class continues working on their individual projects
-If time permits we will begin viewing and discussing "In Search of Shakespeare" while students continue filling out the Nine Event graphic organizer

Summarizer:

-Students turn in answers for this last activity to serve as today's formative assessment